Staff Pharmacist

Description:

Experience - 2 years pharmacy experience

OR 1 year experience for Advance Pharmacy degree (APD) holders

OR 0 years experience for Qatari candidates and graduates from recognized Qatar based universities / institutes

Education - Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy from recognized program

Certification - Valid Primary license from the country of origin (if applicable) AND should be eligible for license from the Licensing authority in the State of Qatar to practice Healthcare

Profession.

Language - Arabic and English

JOB Duties

Patient care

1. Verify physician orders for appropriateness

2. Gather required patient information.

3. Maintains and updates a patient profile with demographics, diagnosis, allergies, and current medications

4. Identify, prioritize and resolve drug related problems

5. Uses appropriate communication skills, and effectively communicates with patients, physicians, and nurses to

solve identified drug related problems

6. Provide patient education (e.g., counselling information and education on adherence issues, either verbal or

written).

7. Monitor medication effectiveness by review of the medical record and direct questioning of the patient or

their carer

8. Monitors drug therapy to evaluate appropriateness of use, drug, dosage form, regimen, route, therapeutic

duplication, and drug interaction

Drug, Therapeutic and Practice Information

1. Provides drug information to health care professionals and to patients and their carer

2. Utilize medical references and evaluate scientific information to answer drug information questions

3. Identifies and acts upon cost avoidance in drug therapy, by promoting cost effective drugs and by reducing

waste.